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10:00 AM | Marine Debris Removal Case Studies
Room: Grand Ballroom 1-3
 Click here for details.Both natural and human-caused disasters can create large amounts of marine debris that enter the ocean and waterways all at once. Unlike episodic oil spill events, marine debris, defined as any manufactured solid material, is persistent in the marine environment. After natural disasters like floods, hurricanes/typhoons, and tsunamis, marine debris and abandoned vessels are a persistent environmental issue often made more complex by the limited funding sources for clean-up operations. Marine casualty events, such as the recent Golden Ray and X-Press Pearl incidents, involving marine debris response and recovery operations, also present challenges to responders that require innovative solutions. This session will feature several diverse marine debris case studies and explore associated best practices and lessons learned followed by a panel discussion
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Jim Elliott, Chief Operating Officer, Teichman Group, LLC
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Daniel Smiley, Response Manager, Washington State Maritime Cooperative
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Preparing for the Unplanned: Emergency Response to Marine Debris
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Peter Murphy, Alaska Regional Coordinator, NOAA - Office of Response & Restoration
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Containership X-Press Pearl Marine Debris Case Study
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Todd Duke, General Manager - Compliance Services, Resolve Marine
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Designing, Installing and Removing the Environmental Protection Barrier around the MV Golden Ray Wreck Site
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Steve Garcia, Sr. Manager of Response Services, Gallagher Marine Systems LLC
Co-Author(s): Mark Ploen, Vice President Environmental, QualiTech Environmental, Inc.
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Addressing Abandoned Derelict Vessels
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Meg Harris, Executive Coordinator, Pacific States/British Columbia Oil Spill Task Force
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12:00 PM | Making Technical Information Accessible
Room: Grand Ballroom 1-3
Click here for details.Sharing information and data can be challenging, especially when the information is difficult to find or complicated to interpret. Mapping tools, dashboards and indicators, and targeted workshops and webinars can assist us in sharing this technical information. Speakers will provide examples of how they have made technical information accessible to a broad audience, followed by a panel discussion regarding best practices for making information and data both accessible and understandable.
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Meg Harris, Executive Coordinator, Pacific States/British Columbia Oil Spill Task Force
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Nhi Irwin, Statewide Resources Section Manager, Washington Dept. of Ecology-Spill Program
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Marine Mammal Management in Oil Spill Response
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Matt Bissell, Acting Preparedness Section Manager, Washington State Ecology, Spills Program, WA State DOE, Spills Program
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Development of GIS Web Applications for U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Spill Response
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Michael Carlson, NRDAR/Spill Response Coordinator, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Co-Author(s): Lindsay Clough, Fish and Wildlife Biologist - GIS/Database Specialist, US Fish & Wildlife Service
Margaret Byrne, Regional NRDAR and Spill Response Coordinator, US Fish & Wildlife Service
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Communicating Commercial Shipping Risk in Accessible Ways
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2:30 PM | Signs of the Times: All Hazards Responses to Urban Crowding, Floods and Wildland Urban Fires
Room: Grand Ballroom 1-3
Click here for details.Responding to any incident is a collaborative event from which we can learn and enhance response planning to account for varying types of hazards. This session will look at responses to varying hazards which used the same tools from spill response to solve the unique challenges presented by a changing climate. Climate change is affecting us all, whether it is from an increase of frequency or intensity of natural disasters or due to our own human intervention/interactions with the natural environment. We can use the lessons learned in spill response and apply them in new ways to rise to the challenges of our changing landscape.
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Kelly Malinoski, Director, Emergency Management, Trans Mountain Pipeline LP
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Kelli Kryzanowski, Manager Preparedness, British Columbia Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy
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A Sign of the Times: 2021 Long Beach Tern Incident
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Lessons Learned in Debris Removal and Successes in Community Collaboration
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Andrea McQuade, Director/Senior Project Manager, Coastal Restoration Society
Co-Author(s): Hannah Gentes, Sr Project Manager/Indigenous Initiatives Lead, Coastal Restoration Society
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Preparing for and Leaning from Wildfires and Floods
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Ken McLernon, Manager, Emergency Management, Trans Mountain Pipeline LP
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4:15 PM | Wildlife Considerations
Room: Grand Ballroom 1-3
Click here for details.This session will present a mix of industry, wildlife experts, and a key trustee agency to cover a breadth of topics around impacts and management of wildlife during spills. Speakers will provide their experience along with updates to ongoing programs specific to the region.
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Barbara Callahan, Senior Director Of Response Services, International Bird Rescue
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Post-Release Survival of Rehabilitated Oiled Birds Around the World – What Do We know from Post-Release Monitoring?
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Oiled Wildlife Response in a Changing World
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Barbara Callahan, Senior Director Of Response Services, International Bird Rescue
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Applying New Endangered Species Act Compliance for Inland Oil Spills
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Valerie Chu, Fish and Wildlife Biologist, USFWS
Co-Author(s):
Matthew Parry, Regional Oil Spill Response/NRDAR Coordinator, USFWS
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